We are currently living in a time of mass-production. It’s very rare, actually it’s almost unheard of, for an individual to consume food they have made themselves on their own property. It’s slightly more likely that they will have bought the food locally. Far more likely is that they’ve purchased the food from a supermarket, who have bought it from wholesalers, who have purchased from farmers. Those working at a Houston contract warehouse or making Houston fulfillmentof orders could have warehouses chock full of all manner of items, all ready to be moved along to the next person on the hierarchy, will be getting employment from this type of system, and it’s what helps our society move. But the reality is that doing things this way means many people get paid simply for being on top, and not making anything of their own, it’s for this reason that the global financial crisis happened.

This manner of creating things comes from the way any large economic system functions. Once enough individuals are involved in a significant enterprise, someone must be placed at the top, in order to decide who will do what, sounds logical enough so far. So this person will need to have something in them that means they’re going to be the one that gets them put in this position. Now, we’d hope it might be their skill in a given area, or their capability to delegate duties, but the reality is that this person may be simply the person who can get others to like him, who has the most cash, or is perceived to be the most influential. This person will now be in a place of power, although they are not best suited to do this job out of all the individuals in the group. Naturally, since they want to keep their place at the top, they’ll try and manipulate the way the system works so that they appear to still be the right choice.

This is the way many groups tend to work, from social groups, to work environments to dictatorships to democracies. To take the role of US President as an example, it’s clear that the person who gets into this place is very rarely the person who can best take care of the country. While George Bush Jr. is a clear example of this, Obama is also an interesting proof of this system. While he was capable of inspiring hope and feelings of patriotism within people, and was able to convince many of his ability to alter the way politics works in the US, this has been shown to be simply a cover, as his reluctance to create meaningful change in relation to war, health care and the environment makes clear.

It’s only through acknowledging that this is the way things happen that we can start to critique and take down this corrupt system. A true democracy, in which individuals can take control of their lives at an individual level, is the only sustainable way to guarantee true freedom for the people of any country.